yin and some motha fuckin yang, y’all

March 14, 2013

i returned from spring break this week
where several chicago men propositioned me in various capacities.
being the lady that i am
i of course bedded
none of them.

my ego sufficiently inflated, i returned
and entered what can only be called the three days of hell,
all of it connected to the real job (as cauchy calls it).

phase one of a particular project is done
and my colleagues and i are moving into phase deux.
(if any of you want to take a look, feel free)
phase one nearly did us in,
and phase deux is fixing to finish the job.

any of you who have ever tried to combine
database management,
digital cartography,
and literary analysis,
may have an inkling of our difficulties.*

and so,
after three days of
setback after setback
bad news after bad news
i received a little gifty in the mail.
any of you who’ve followed my blog
will know how much i adore gifts.
(and .gifs)

you could have knocked me over with a feather
when i got to my office mailbox to find a package
from ms. hello yarn herself.can you believe it?
for absolutely no reason at all,
i got a gifty when i most needed it.home made jams and over 1200yds of yarn?
almost enough to make a believer outta ya, right?

in other random news,
ages ago, i purchased colours of shetland by kate davies.
i ordered early to get two signed copies,
one for my shelf
and one for me to use.

after a month with no books in sight,
i explained the situation to kate
and she sent me two new ones at no charge.
they arrived without a hitch in about week.

two days later, the original two arrived.so now i have four copies of colours of shetland.

what happened to the other two to delay them?
were they trapped in customs?
lost in that black hole with which we knitters are so familiar?

oh no.

nothing so simple.

what had happened was, it wasmissent to mother fucking australia?
how on earth did the british postal system of all people
missend my package to australia?
i mean,
they literally sent it across the wrong ocean!

anyway,
since i hardly need four copies of the book
i’m giving away the other two.
if you want to win one,
just share this post somehow,
(there should be a little ‘share’ button at the bottom)
and leave me a comment.

the random number generator will pick a winner.

stay tuned to see what i’m knitting.

(shocker)

*any experts in any of those areas who’d like to help, especially people conversant in arcgis 10.1, hit me up! lol

Shared on my fb page (with a note that it’s from the REAL Steven Ambrose, not our alpaca; didn’t want any confusion there) – sooo glad to see a post from you. (And seriously? Baby alpaca? In those colors? Jeebus, I’m drooling here.) The homemade jam looks pretty yummy, too. So glad you got such a lovely gifty at just the right time.

As for the wrong ocean – Mercury’s retrograde. Other than that, I got nuthin’.

Didn’t see the share button, but will gladly copy and paste the url in order to share your delightful day with several knitting friends – particularly one young man who has had a challenging living sit and working sit and deserves a good read! Watcha gonna make with the yarn?

You lucky son of a . . .! Baby alpaca?!? And in those colors?? I think I know of a little dog who can’t wait to model your finished creation — which he hopes he gets to keep, of course! (Baby alpaca would sooooo keep his tummy warm next winter, hint, hint.)

And the Royal Mail aren’t the only ones to get things wrong. My local US Postal Service branch managed to send a birthday card to the wrong London. Imagine my British friend’s surprise when his birthday card arrived over a month late — and with the handwritten notation “Since when is the UK in Canada??” Yep, it went to London, Ontario, first!

Wish I could help you with your project, but I’m still at the stage of cussing out Office for trying to make me do things Microsoft’s way rather than the way I want to do them!

Oops, sorry for the name misspelling. I blame your St. Stephen’s Green Twitterfeed heading.

And your project seems very interesting. I’d like to see something similar done for well-known films set in Paris or visual artists who have lived and worked in Paris (although the Eiffel Tower may have to be left out — everybody and their mother-in-law seem to have done something with that!). I have seen one done for films set in London, showing filming locations, routes of travel or chase scenes, approximate locations of fictitious sites (the Vauxhall Cross tube stop seen in “Die Another Day”, for example), etc.

Shared on Twitter. Thanks so much for the give away. I’ve been eyeing Shetland knits, and would love a copy of the book. It is true the universe tends to balance. I’ve been having a rough time this month and am totally ready for something positive.
Alas, I have no mapping skills (though I can deliver a baby).